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Apologies – this one’s a bit of a rant. Oh, and it’s about slightly more in-depth use of a GPS than simply punching in a destination on a TomTom. I’ve used Garmin software and GPS devices for what feels like about 10 years now. I used to be forced to use PC emulators on a [...]

Ok. So IA Summit was a huge success in terms of moving forwards with the concept of evolving an Agile UX Manifesto. Ann went along and ran the workshop, and there’s an initial summary of the collective thinking on slideshare… In case you hadn’t noticed, I was conspicuously absent. Sorry about that – I got [...]

Apparently there’s already 12 people signed up to come to the workshop myself and Ann Carrier (née McMeekin) are running at IA Summit in a few weeks. We’re both super excited and eagerly getting ready to spend a whole afternoon working with enthusiasts and sceptics to figure out if / how the original developers’ manifesto [...]

One of the things I mentioned at the recent UXPeople conference was the need to agree “Good Enough” up front for any agile project that requires experience design. Now, before you go scanning to the end to read the answer, you might want to know that I don’t have one. Yet. So this is more [...]

Garmin‘s Connect website for uploading and browsing all the pulse, hardware and location data their devices collect when you’re running, cycling, walking, is down for maintenance right now. The visuals and messaging around a normally negative event is really quite nice for a company that doesn’t always excel at design and customer centricity.

In a couple of weeks, I’ll be talking at UX People in London on “Coping Strategies: UX in an Agile World” and myself and Ann will be hosting a workshop in the afternoon. The Talk Two years ago, I joined a software development consultancy (Lab49). We’re specialists at creating bespoke software for human based trading, [...]

Speaking in public is something I quite enjoy – but don’t get to do very often (apart from my monthly ramble with the LabExperience team at Lab49). A short while ago, the London chapter of the UPA (Usability Professionals Association) organised a session on how to get your submissions approved for their annual international conference. [...]

Maybe the iPhone 4 antenna issue, if it is hardware related, was hidden by a desire for corporate secrecy during testing

OmniSketchGrapher introduces a new approach to graphing that is visually centred instead of data centred, but even more exciting are some of the little ways they’ve approached the interaction design for moving and scaling axes.